St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-26
FOR THREE DAKOTAS.
A Prominent Democrat Thinks the Boom
ing Territory Would Make Trio
of Good States.
The People Expected to Record Them
selves in Favor of Division at the
November Election.
Speculation as to Whether the Presf-
dent Would Attach His Signature
to an Admission Bill.
Lamar's Dislike of Day--Mr. Caul-
field Still Ill--Mayor Stars
Strange Order.
Special TO the Globe.

WASHINGTON. March 25.-Conversations
representatives i'll the next congress elicit
the almost universal opinion that the people
of Dakota can have either admission as a
whole or division and admission, the mat
ter being entirely with the people them
selves. There is q general expression of
qualification that the people are TO speak
for themselves officially at the polls next
November. Prominent Democrats and Re-
publicans unite in saying that congress has
been unable to impartially determine what
is best for the territory. and what the peo-
pie want, because there has been no legiti-
mate popular expression hitherto. Factions
have sent representatives here to Washing
ton for the purpose of bulldozing congress
into their views. The capitol has been as
saulted with Dakota billiards. from every
point of the political compass. But, as
one of the senators says: Congress is not
tenderfoot legislature, snow-bound and
hide bound. Schemes which work we'll at
Bismarck will not work in this city, and the
people seem to have realized it at last. !
shall be glad to vote for whatever the peo-
pie of Dakota officially declare that they
want" But there are members of both
houses who are
NOT SO LIBERAL.
There is gentleman OH the Republican
side of the senate, a presidential possibility
of his party, who says: 1.-The territory is
young yet. Even when they vote on the
subject of division l am not certain that
that will settle the matter. Young men
who reach their twenty-tirst year are citi-
zens, and can vote as they please; but very
few of them are old enough and wise
enough to know what they want. In ten
years time her population will have more
than doubled and then the people might
vote differently and more wisely. 1t is
true that less populous and less prosperous
territories have been admitted to statehood;
but we are growing older and more con-
versative. Who would vote for the admis-
sion of Nevada to-day? That was ma
tional blunder. Dakota has better right to
representation in congress to-day than Ne
vada, from an equitable point of view.
But, because congress made mistake
about Nevada is that any reason why an
other mistake should be made? The people
of Dakota will probably vote for division
next November. But they will be voting
for another million of people who will be
there ten years hence, and the new corners
may --..-...'-
REGRET THE DECISION
now reached. l believe that it is wise to &c
slow in these matters" Democrats are not
anxious to admit Dakota as two states. and
yet one of the most sagaciOus of Demo
cratic leaders says: II am not certain that
the admission of three states in Dakota, the
Il
party in the end. There are great many
Democrats in Dakota. and the number is
growing. The West and the South are
tenants in common, and have more similar
tiles of aspiration and political utilization
see permanent Republican prosperity in the
division and admission of two states OF
three from Dakota" Thus do views di-
verge upon the subject. Many minds gaze
upon the problem from many standponts.
and the lights and shadows present differ
ent pictures. Nearly year ago it was
ascertained that the
tt PRESIDENT Is IN FAVOR
of doing almost anything for the people OF
Dakota that they officially ask. He was re-
ported as having said: ''If for no other
reason than protection, 1 would agree
to any measure looking to the relief of Da-
kota from the ills of which her statesmen
complain. Every week of my incumbency
of this office l have been besieged by Da-
kota people, and each of them tells differ
ent story about his territory and concerning
the other men who come from there. If
were 10 believe half of what they tell me, l
wOdld think there was scarce an honest or
truthful mali in Dakota. They abuse each
other like pirates, If the territory were a
state or two states, they would do most of
their fighting at home, and come to Wash
ington less frequently with their stories and
woes" Whether his excell6ncy would be
SO desperate now as to sign an admission
bill otf-hand is a question. He has not been
Dakota bedeviled since he appointed gov
ernOr.